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Transentience

Symphonic Power Metal from the Netherlands

About Me


Transentience is founded in 2005 by Kristof Elst, with a cross between symphonic metal and powermetal in mind.
The demo “For Hope is Still There” is recorded with Carmen Agtsteribbe on vocals, Rene Bouwer on bass, Joop de Rooij ..s and Kace Huiszoon playing the drums. The demo contains three songs, “For Hope is Still THere”, “Calling out the Gods” and the ballad “After the Storm” and receives international acclaim.
After a year of extensive rehearsals Transentience is invited to play Metalbash - the Netherlands’ most prestigious metal-contest. Transentience is one of the few if not the only Female-Fronted metalband ever to have been invited to play at Metalbash.
Following their performance at Metalbash starts a full year of playing most parts of the Netherlands. They share the stage with national and international acts such as After Forever, Delain and the Taiwanese Seraphim.
The end of 2007 sees the recording of the promo “Paradox” with Joost van den Broek (After Forever) mixing and mastering the tracks and Melaina Mulder on vocals. These recordings receive international acclaim as well by Sonic Cathedral and Metal Maidens.
In 2008, the composition of the band changes. Maarten Vloon takes place behind the keyboards. Roger Veenbrink appears on bass. This is the band that will play the new shows. New recordings and a full-length album are scheduled for the end of the year.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/5/2006
Band Website: transentience.com
Band Members: Melaina Mulder: Vocals
Kristof Elst: Guitars
Maarten Vloon: Keys
Roger Veenbrink: Bass

Influences: Symphonic, Progressive, Gothic.After Forever, Dream Theater, Helloween, Nightwish
Sounds Like: Velvet angels singing, metal on metal, rocks being crushed, a sexy whisper in your ear, you screaming as someone bites your upper lip, hard.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Paradox EP available NOW!

Our EP Paradox is now available from indiestore.com.The album is yours for only 6 euro. We have no DRM applied, so you can listen to our music wherever and whenever you like. If you'd like to burn you...
Posted by Transentience on Fri, 23 May 2008 12:46:00 PST

Transentience reviewed on Sonic Cathedral

Transentience's Paradox Promo got reviewed by Sonic Cathedral.Toine gave us a blazing review! Here are a few excerpts, but I strongly encourage you to read the whole article."What a beautiful and crys...
Posted by Transentience on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:47:00 PST

Transentience looking for labels

Last year in August and November, Transentience recorded their debut EP "Paradox".Transentience is currently looking for a label to release this EP internationally.Paradox contains 4 songs that portra...
Posted by Transentience on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:13:00 PST

Past and upcoming gigs

To all the people who supported us during our last gig: a big hand! Thank you for coming and for believing in us. Thank you for making it a great show.A lot of people wanted to know when our next gig ...
Posted by Transentience on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:17:00 PST

Songs with vocals online

Thanks to Joop, our songs are now complete with vocals. You can listen to them on our myspace site.These are the songs that will be included on our demo-release. We are currently putting the demo toge...
Posted by Transentience on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:33:00 PST

Preliminary Vocal Mix of After the Storm online

As per popular request, we have uploaded the preliminary vocal mix of After the Storm. This is not the final version, but we've been getting so many requests to put some of Carmen's vocals online that...
Posted by Transentience on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:36:00 PST

New recordings

A few weeks back, we started recording Carmen's voice. These were preliminary recordings, mainly aimed at getting her voice right and analysing the structure of her singing.We all tend to get absorbed...
Posted by Transentience on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:07:00 PST